Posts

Positioning posts, build notes, and the occasional Tessera dispatch. Everything ships under the same operator-tag-and-receipt discipline as the product.

• the-case-against-stealth-scrapers

  Why Tracebind refuses to ship stealth plugins, residential proxies, or captcha solvers — and what we build instead. A position post for engineering leaders choosing between Tracebind and the surveillance-capitalism dev tools.

• 2026-05-19

  From docker-compose to Voltainer in one script

  How we converted Auto Browser — a multi-service Xvfb/Chromium/Playwright/FastAPI stack — from docker-compose to systemd-nspawn on Voltainer, what broke on the way, and the two upstream platform extensions the conversion forced us to contribute.